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1 January, 2025

Kodak Single-Element Plastic Meniscus Lens – A Quest for the Primitive, Episode 1: The Worst Lens Ever Produced?

By Jonathan Leavitt

If one accepts that no optical design can ever attain perfection, one should also consider that no lens can be so bad as to be totally useless either. When you think of lenses n...

31 December, 2024

The Most Commented upon Posts Published on 35mmc in 2024

By Hamish Gill

I normally do a post about the top ten most read and most commented upon posts of the year. This year it’s just most commented upon as I have stopped tracking the traffic ...

30 December, 2024

5 Frames TombRaiding with the Minolta 500mm F8 AF REFLEX

By Christian Hogue

I’m a frequent visitor to the Angkor Wat temples and am always looking for something different to shoot the experience on. That combined with an interest in perhaps safar...

30 December, 2024

20 Frames on the Space Coast with Lomochrome Turquoise

By Ben G

In the Spring of 2023, I traveled for work to Coco Beach, Florida, which is situated on some barrier islands. It’s not really a fun trip (though I do love my co-workers) s...

29 December, 2024

A Complicated Relationship With Colour Film

By David Smith

“Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.” — Rainer Maria Rilke I just ...

28 December, 2024

A Portable Scanner for Free – Another Quick Tip

By Geoff Chaplin

This is a follow-up to my previous note “A Portable Light Box for Free”. After developing my film in a bathroom following a location shoot away from home I want to see the image...

28 December, 2024

The Little Dino that could – a thermal print camera

By Kohtli

Many of us have spoken about the cost of film photography. The development costs, the film costs, the time investment, and the occasional blank roll hiding around the corner, ar...

27 December, 2024

Zorki 5 & 6 – A Brace of Otherwise Unwanted Cameras

By Richard Becker

You know how it is, you see something on a certain auction site very near the auction end with a sensible start price and no bids so you put just the minimum on with no expectat...

Chris Giles on 5 Frames from a cheap and simple camera – and a very rare one too
I did a Google search for "Neo Fot" looking at the images that were generated. It was a long way…
Russ Rosener on Olympus XA2 and Cosina CX-2 – In the Zone
This was a very enjoyable read and quite a few good photos to prove each camera's worth. I owned an…
Gary Smith on 5 Frames from a cheap and simple camera – and a very rare one too
And how did you locate the Danish Photohistorical Society?

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